assignment #11

Ekphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a visual work of art. Ekphrasis has been considered generally to be a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relate more directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. A descriptive work of prose or poetry, a film, or even a photograph may thus highlight through its rhetorical vividness what is happening, or what is shown in, say, any of the visual arts, and in doing so, may enhance the original art and so take on a life of its own through its brilliant description.

Poem

The Cake That Bit Back

A baker decide to bake a cake one day, he mixed the ingrients, flour white as snow, nuts as hard as stone, choclate as sweet as the smell of a flower. He poured the mixture in a pan and placed it in the over let it sit some time in the oven. After it was done he took it out and set it on the table and decide to take a nap. He woke up to the sweet  smell of the cake and found the cake ten times as big as he cooked it and it was standing over him. The baker jumped out of the bed but not fast enough. The delious cake had ate him.  

Phantom of the Opera - 3rd Art Event

In 1919, the Paris Opera House is holding an auction. Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, an elderly wheelchair-bound man, purchases a music box. He spots a familiar figure, Madame Giry, the former ballet mistress. Then, their attention is drawn to "Lot 666", a chandelier in pieces. As the chandelier is lifted, the film then shifts back to 1870, when the opera house was in its prime.
The Phantom, a disfigured musical genius, haunts the Opera House, hiding in its catacombs. He falls in love with a young soprano, Christine Daae, and tutors her into becoming the new opera star. Christine is torn between her childhood sweetheart Raoul and her attachment to the Phantom, who is masquerading as the Angel of Music, the spirit of Christine's dead father. Meanwhile, the Phantom engages in obsessive and deviant behavior, such as stalking Christine, murdering people to get to her and terrorizing anyone opposing Christine or himself.
When Christine visits her father's grave, the Phantom pretends to be the Angel of Music to lure her into his clutches. Raoul has followed her and rides up on his white horse in time to rescue her. A vicious sword fight erupts between Raoul and the Phantom, Raoul is wounded, but quickly rebounds and beats the Phantom. Raoul is about to kill the Phantom, but Christine begs him not to. They ride off as the enraged Phantom decides to "Let it be war upon them both!", even after Christine made Raoul spare him.
During the night's performance of "Don Juan Triumphant", an opera written by the Phantom, the Phantom and Christine sing "The Point of no Return", in which she tricks the Phantom into believing that she loves him. Raoul, sitting in the audience, is also tricked into believing that she loves the Phantom. As the Phantom begs Christine to have a life with him, she unmasks him, revealing his disfigurement to all in attendance. The Phantom kidnaps Christine and causes the chandelier to crash into to the audience. The Phantom, in a rage, believes Christine can never love him after seeing his scarred appearance, but she says the distortion lies in his soul, not his face. Raoul arrives to save Christine, but the Phantom snares him in a Punjab lasso, and tells Christine that if she chooses Raoul, he will free her, but Raoul will die; if she chooses him, he will release Raoul, but she must stay with him forever. Christine agrees to enter into this unholy bargain to save Raoul's life, even though he begs her to let him die so that she can live her life. Christine sings to the Phantom, tells him he's not alone, and they kiss passionately. Touched, he frees both her and Raoul. The Phantom realizes that Christine could have loved him, but his horrible deeds and anger have destroyed all chance of gaining her love. He realizes that if he truly loves Christine he must let her leave with the man she loves, Raoul. Christine returns the ring the Phantom gave her, then forces herself to leave with Raoul. She glances back a final time, knowing she loves him deep inside. Heartbroken, the Phantom, understanding he destroyed their love, grabs a candle-brier and smashes the mirror, disappearing behind it and a curtain. When the mob arrives, Meg, Christine's friend and Madame Giry's daughter, finds only his mask.
The scene shifts to the music box which fades to black and white in 1919. Raoul visits the cemetery and sadly places the music box at Christine's tombstone. On the ground next to the grave he sees a fresh red rose tied with a black ribbon and the engagement ring the Phantom gave to Christine, signifying that his love for her will never die.

The overall meaning of this moive I think is ture love is blind or never judge a book by it's cover. The Phantom loved Christine so much he would do anything for her but in the end he smothered her with his acts of cruelity and lost her for every.

ASSIGNMENT #9

1. Relief is a sculptural method. Sculpture in relief is created by raising the sculpted impression on the material above the background plane. This is done by lowering the background of the field and the sculpted impression outwardly raised.

Intaglio is the process where the design is carved below the surface of the matrix being used. In this case it is mostly metals such as copper,aluminum or stone. It is popular currently in concrete as well. Aluminum being a very resilient metal is a good material to work with in the Intaglio technique. The Intaglio technique involves using , etching, engraving, mezotint, aquatint, etc. The process involves making an image by making grooves below the surface of the metal. Then the ink is pushed into the grooves of the image that have been made. It is then pushed into a press with a damp paper on it and while it is being pushed the ink gets onto the paper from the grooves.

Stencil is a thin sheet material which does not allow moisture to pass through it. When paint is applied an image is formed under the surface of the sheet material. It acts as a water proof material and can be used to draw or paint shapes, letters, and patterns.

Plano graphics,  the printing is done on a flat surface, rather than from a raised surface. The different planographic printing are Lithography, Monotyping.

2.  Lithography is a process of printing an image using a stone or metal plate with a smooth flat surface. An image is drawn on the flat surface of limestone or metal plate using a greasy medium. An image is drawn, painted or photographically applied the stone or plate using a greasy medium. Lithographic inks are oil based, the image will keep away water and allow ink. Then it pressed and rolled with rubber rollers. Paper is placed below it and after pressing image is transferred on to the paper.

3. Etching is the art of making prints from metal plate, which has been bitten with acid. The plate itself is covered with wax and the artist draw with a sharp needle like instrument. This is then exposed to acid which then eats through the metal leaving lines in the plate. And silk screen is generally originated in China. It involves the process of allowing ink to pass through different areas until the final composite image is achieved.

assignment #7

After looking up to see what the song mean Though I was pretty close to what the song was about. It was about a man who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot. However, any man who wishes to wed Turandot must first answer her three riddles; if he fails, he will be beheaded. I though the song was about a man who may of just losts his first ture love. So I think I was pretty close. Puccini is the man who is most known for singing this song.

assignment #8

Light Opera is less demanding form of operatic theater. Incorporates spoken words. Appeals to a broader audience. Still requires operatic voices and live orchestra.
Opera  is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text called a librettomusical score. Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century and soon spread through thr rest of Europe and is highly stylized, it has set conventions of form and performance ,realism is not the guiding light and, story lines can be somewhat thin.
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor,pathios, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms such as opera, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements of the works.

Columbia Museum of Art - First Art Event

Choose a work of art at the Columbia Museum of Art.

Describe the work of art

Kiki Smith, 1998; little chicks, 22 h x 28 1/2 in.w; 55 3/4 h x 72 1/4 cm. w.Impressions on gray Ruscombe Mill Grisham paper. Five baby chicks draw in black, on a white back ground enjoying a normal day on a farm.


Analyze the work of art
Could create a dark mood because of the color of the birds. Does make you think of happy thoughts because of the images of the baby birds just enjoying a normal day. But colors of the bird can make you think of an uncover meaning there.

Interpret the work of art
The artist try to take something pretty and turn it in to something dark. The little baby birds gives it a famine feel but the dark look portrays the art work as very strong looking and dominating. I believe the painting is a metaphor for not judging a book by its cover. Or it could mean there is a little darkness in all of us.

Evaluate the work of art
I loved this art work the uses of color on something that most people think of as sweet as a baby bird was turn dark in a simple twist of color change. The metaphor jumps right out at you letting the viewer know the artist has a hidden meaning in this art work.

assignment 6#

Label the parts of this proscenium theater

A. Apron
B. Off Stage
C. Proscenium
D. Border
E.Backcloth

assignment #5

1. Discuss why people dance.

People dance for all kinds of reasons, to mourn, to celebrate, to heal, to give thanks, to preserve cultural heritage and treasured legends, to demonstrate physical prowess, to assert individuality, to provoke and to entertain. 

2. Discuss the difference between modern dance and modern ballet.

The first major difference between ballet and modern dance is the attire. Ballet dancers wear ballet slippers or pointe shoes. Modern dancers may or may not wear shoes. Many modern dancers dance barefoot, in jazz shoes or half sole shoes. Modern is open to interpretation, suggestion and change. Ballet is straightforward. Ballet is more demanding on the body, modern dancing is more free. In ballet you have to work more on posture, turn out, core strength.

3. Describe the particular period that dance began in the western world.

American modern dance developed in the early 20th century alongside American music. Among the pioneers of modern dance were Isadora Duncan, the dance company of Ruth St. Denis and her husband-partner, Ted Shawn. The early modern dance makers broke with European classical forms by giving into the weight of gravity, initiating movement from the center rather than the limbs, and emphasizing an emotional directness in their choreography. The term swing dance refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with jazz music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The prototypical swing dance is lindy hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today. African American dances are those vernacular dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies. African American vernacular dances are usually centered on social dance practice, though performance dance and concert dance often supply complementary aspects to social dancing.

assignment #4

1. What was the subject of his work?
The subject  of  Kandinsky's paintings was the promotion of modern art and the possibilities of spiritual experience through symbolic associations of color. He often painted scenes from the book of revelation in the bible. Depicting the riders on their horses through line, color, and composition.
2. Describe the kind of painting he did?
For Kandinsky, painting was above all deeply spiritual . He was highly influenced by the sensorial properties of color and sound, and sought to visualize these properties through increasingly abstract compositions. Also he produced  figurative works, in compositions of complex patterns and brilliant colors such as Composition VII (1913). As a painter, Kandinsky saw himself as a prophetic figure, whose mission was to translate the most profound human emotions into universally comprehensible symbols and visual sensations.

3. Discuss synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Synesthesia in art has historically referred to a wide variety of artistic experiments that have explored the co-operation of the senses. Synesthetes often report that they were unaware their experiences were unusual until they realized other people did not have them.

assignment #3

I love when fall comes back around. The sight of the of leaves turning from a glowing green to bight red like the dust of night or an light orange or yellow symbolize the colors of fire in a painting. This means one thing to me football is back. Twenty two gladiators on the field of battle with one goal in mind to win just to win. The whisple blows as like a call for war. The soilders in thier pads ready for the fight not caring about there own well being just to sorce to take home the win. As the quarter back call for the play to begin like a general commanding his troops the ball is thrown in to the air like a bird in flight, the reciever catches it and cradles the ball  like a new born making sure not to drop it as he runs over the victory line sorcing a touchdown.

assignment #2

The first domain of creativity is fluency which is defined as the ability to think of many diverse ideas quickly. Sometimes one idea can be enough to produce art, but creativity often requires a person to identify and develop many different ideas before choicing to go in one direction with a  project. The second domain is flexibility which is the process of moving from one perspective or idea to another during the creative process. An artist can do this by show you one object in a piece of his art work  but turn around in the same piece of work and show you something different geting you to think about something else, like football player dress up in football uniforms playing basketball this gets the viewer to think about the two different sports. A third domain of creativity is originality which is an artist’s ability to generate unusual ideas in their work. In art work an artist may want you to see more then one thing in a piece of his or her work so the artist may paint a happy image in the painting but title it something dark this can get you as a veiwer to look at it in different ways. The fourth and final domain of creativity is elaboration which is the concept of adding to ideas to improve or extend them. Artists will think creatively of ways to extend that initial idea, what can be added or taken away to improve the piece to take it to another level.


Describe: To describe objectively what you see; to delay judgment. List title; artist; date; medium; size. Is work representational, abstract, or nonobjective? Can you identify a subject? If not, are there objective "hints" about a subject? Describe how the elements are used: line; shape; form; space; color; light & dark; texture; time; motion.

Analyze: To describe behaviors of what you see. Describe how the elements above use

the principles of design (balance, scale & proportion, emphasis & focus, repetition &

rhythm, & unity & variety).

Interpret: To find meaning in what you see. What does the work remind you of? How does the work make you feel? Why? What do you think the artist was trying to do? What is the intended use of the object? Are there symbols in the work? What do they mean?

Judge or Evaluate: To evaluate what you see. Does the work have value through formal qualities (use of elements & principles of design)? Value through expression of emotion or

feeling? Value through purpose? Are materials appropriate? How could it have been more successful? Who might value this work? 

 

ASSIGNMENT #1

I have made art before, everyone has made art. I believe art can be any that inspires you or someone else. If I had a favoriate type of art I would have to said in would  be sculptures. I find it amazing how someone can take a big block of stone and turn it  into something millions of people would want to see. I remeber in the 2nd grade going to art class and my art teach showing me and my class how to make sculptures out of clay and we make dinosaures. This is something I still remeber to this day how to do. The last time I when to a museum would have been in class on thursday. But before that it was about 18 years ago. I went to an museum in Baltimore, MD as a class feild trip. I have never been in a play, opera, art film and honestly I have two left feet so I can't dance. I find I learn better with a teach one on one. I am taking this class because it is part of my major requirements. Arts has moved me tons of times in my life. I have been moved watching moives and tv shows that have given me all types of emotions. I have been scare, thrilled and even shocked at what I was looking at. What inspires me is my one ture love the game of football there is nothing better on the planet. I believe moives, music, video games, comics and television is art. Art is what ever inspires someone. Any one with eye or ears can decide what is good art. Good art is what catches your attention. When I am debate music or movies with friends the lyrics of the song and the way the moive left me feeling at the end is what I judge the moive on. The best moive of  last year was hands down 2012. Deplicting the end of the world in the year 2012. An art film is a film that some one make to try to get the audience to watch and  catch a serect meaning behind the message in the flim. The music in my CD player is R&B I uses to be a big fan of Rap but I really thing that it is a dieing art form of music.